Texting in 2010...

Well I've wrote already before how texting has come a long way and how it has changed. Well there are many positive ways of using texting. For example, when the earthquake hit Haiti in the beginning of the year,  a lot of people helped out in sending help, food, water, and clothing to the devastated country. Others though found other ways to help such as donating money. One way of donating was by sending a text message to a certain number and automatically donating $10. Ways like this have been used now to donate money to foundations faster than making phone calls. It is a pretty easy and convenient way to donate money and lots of other foundations have used this method instead of making a phone call and giving someone their credit card numbers. People now in days prefer not to have to call someone so instead they send a text message to make it faster and simpler. We have even made our own cool texting language! Instead of writing out "Talk to you later" we write TTYL or to "Oh my Gosh" we write OMG! It's pretty cool when you think about it because you don't even need to write out the whole word. It saves you a lot of time.
Another cool thing of texting is that you can receive alerts! For example, here at USF there is an alert called MOBULL, where you sign up and you receive alerts if there is an emergency going on in school so you can always be informed about what is going on.Like if there is a hurricane warning or things like that. For all facebook users you can receive text messages on your phone when someone has commented on your status, messaged you, and or etc. And I'm pretty sure that are many other social networks where you can receive updates through a simple text message. Weekly I receive a bible verse through a text and a daily devotional, so that's how I uses texting to my advantage. It's pretty awsome when you take advantage of the things that are offered through texting.